Scientific Exploration,Thought & Research
 

COLLECTIONS OF TOPICS (see also Interesting Ideas & Websites )
BBC Science & Nature http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/
Channel 4.com Science http://www.channel4.com/science/index.html
Daily Planet Video Archive http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/archivelist.asp
Scientific American Magazine http://www.scientificamerican.com/
The Scale of the Universe 2 <New 2012> http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
   
SPECIFIC TOPICS  
Adventure  
Vancouver to Moscow by Human Power http://vancouvertomoscow.com/
Animal and Human Behaviour Compared  
Our Inner Ape (Frans de Waal) http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/OurInnerApe/
   
Earth Exploration  
Earth - Timelapse View From Space <New> http://vimeo.com/32001208
Perpetual Ocean - Ocean Currents animated video by NASA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU
South Pole Station Virtual Tour http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/pole/
Electrostatic Lifters  
Lifters (Museum of Electricity) http://www.electricmuseum.com/exhibits/lifter/index.shtml
Energy  
Water as Fuel! (video clip) http://www.mulone.com/WaterFuel.wmv
World Changing: Airborne Wind Power http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004052.html
World Changing: Another World is Here http://www.worldchanging.com/
   
Environmental Topics  
Perpetual Ocean - Ocean Currents animated video by NASA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU
Space for Species: Tracking From Space http://www.spaceforspecies.ca/
   
Genetics  
Human Epigenome Project http://www.epigenome.org/index.php?page=project
Human Genome Project (National Human Genome Institute) http://www.genome.gov/
   
Holograms - Holography  
3D Hologram - Hatsune Miku - Japanese Animé Pop Star <New> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI&feature=player_embedded
   
Human Beings: Research Subjects  
Human Performance Lab (U. of Calgary) http://www.kin.ucalgary.ca/hpl/
   
Invisibility  
Cloak of Invisibility (Oct. 19, 2006) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_sc/cloak_of_invisibility
Optical Camouflage http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
   
Lasers (see also Holograms above)  
Encyclopedia of Laser Physics & Technology http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html
   
Mathematics  
"From Crypto to Jazz": Math Interpreted as Music http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,71658-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
   
Nanotechnology  
Diamond nanorods (Nanotechweb.org)   http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/8/16
Diamond nanorods (Physorg.com)   http://www.physorg.com/news6436.html
Diamond nanorods (Wikipedia)   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorods
Institute of Nanotechnology http://www.nano.org.uk/
   
Patent Search  
Patent Analytics & Patent Searching   http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Physics  
Motion Mountain: The Free Physics Textbook ! http://www.motionmountain.net/
   
Robotics  
DARPA Grand Challenge   http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp
FESTO Robotics modelled after animals! http://www.festo.com/cms/en-ca_ca/13046.htm
Front Line Robotics http://www.frontlinerobotics.com/2005/
Human Centred Robotics Group at Essex http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/hhu/HCR-Group.html
"Rabbit" Biped robot http://robot-rabbit.lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/English/
Robotics Articles: Current Research (GizMag) http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/
Robots: Asimo (Honda) http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
Robots: HRP2 (Kawada) http://www.kawada.co.jp/global/ams/hrp_2.html
"Stanley" (Stanford Racing Team) http://cs.stanford.edu/group/roadrunner//old/index.html
The Shape of Robots to Come (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/technology/circuits/16robot.html
   
Space  
Astronomy Picture of the Day * http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Earth - Timelapse View From Space <New> http://vimeo.com/32001208
Google Mars http://www.google.com/mars/
Google Moon * http://moon.google.com/
International Space Station Mission Pages http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
New Planets in our Solar System: IAU draft Aug. 2006 http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html
PlanetQuest http://www.planetquest.org/
Rocket Racing League http://www.rocketracingleague.com/index.html
SpaceRip <New 2012> http://spacerip.com/
Space Weather (check for sunspots here) http://www.spaceweather.com/
The Scale of the Universe 2 <New 2012> http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
   
Technology: Advances, Research, etc.  
BOINC (UC Berkeley): Donate your unused computing power
to your choice of research projects *
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Optical Camouflage http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html
SETI@Home (project ended Dec. 15, 2005) http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
TED: Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference http://ted.com/
TED Talks (video clips from 2006 conference) http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
Text to Speech Synthesis: AT&T http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
Universal Display Corporation (flexible flat-panel color displays) http://www.universaldisplay.com/
   
Unusual...(food for thought!)  
Earth 100 Million Years from Now <New 2012> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGcDed4xVD4&feature=related
Motion Mountain: The Free Physics Textbook ! http://www.motionmountain.net/
Our Inner Ape (Frans de Waal) http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/OurInnerApe/
Perpetual Ocean - Ocean Currents animated video by NASA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU
The Scale of the Universe 2 <New 2012> http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
   

 

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